Show meh the love – February video event {CLOSED}
13It’s February and that means love is in the air and/or you’re tired of hearing about how love is in the air.
I’m here to let you in on a little secret…beneath our gruff, prickly, greasy, perpetually damp exteriors we crave love just like everyone else.
So for just a few days let’s all put aside our apathy and embrace our romantic sides (in a totally appropriate way ಠ_ಠ).
Show us the love. Post a webcam video of you showing us your affection in whatever way you please.
The rules are:
1. Keep it to 7 seconds and under
2. Keep your pants on
3. Include yourself blowing a kiss to the camera in your video
We're going to be using these videos for something so make sure you're okay with looking stupid on a mildly successful-ish ecommerce site.
Post your video on YouTube so they embed properly and we can download them. If you don’t know how check this out.
So what’s in it for you?
We want to reward people for participating in the community so we’re trying out something new: SUPER SWEET temporary FORUM BADGES!
Everyone that posts a video will be rewarded with a brand new forum badge that'll be displayed until the end of February. The badge is still being designed and implemented but should start to show up for those that participated by next week.
These event badges will override every badge besides the scapegoat (sorry @Barney) but they'll only last until the end of the month. Think of them as super exclusive collector's editions if that makes you feel better.
In addition to the badge, the top two videos with the most stars and one staff choice will get another prize! They’re probably going to be terrible but it's something!
To get things rolling here's my terrible and awkwardly silent submission:
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Whoa. whoa. whoa. Just hold on there a minute.
You want me to put pants on for this? No dice.
@Thumperchick I mean as long as we can't see that you're not wearing them it's probably fine.
@JonT Okay, I'll try to remember to dust off the webcam on my laptop then.
@JonT Tops optional!!!!
second
@JonT l2video.
@er1c So I scrolled down and back up and clicked on the following (one of the suggested videos), not realizing that it wasn't your Valentine's video. So I assumed that you were angryneeson52 blowing a kiss to bigbuffetboy85 @JonT.
@baseba4551 Over 7 seconds...
@juststephen I know. Once I started kissing myself, it was oddly difficult to stop.
Sounds like a lot of work for a prize I'll never get...so, enjoy the mystery of never knowing my face or true identity.
@studerc
@studerc @lisaviolet
@unixrab
@studerc Hey make a flip book like I did (scroll down a lot to see it) no face, or pants, needed. Free to make at the site I used.
I was all over this until the blowing-a-kiss bit. Can it be my cat blowing the kiss?
@HELLOALICE if your cat is trained that well...and even if it's not, YES
I'll post something in a few hours once I get back from church. Maybe tomorrow. :)
Do Vines post here automatically? Because a six-second rule would have let everyone post them there. And can we convert them to GIFs if the loop is under seven seconds?
And am I overthinking this?
@editorkid Vines do post automatically, they're just harder for us to get the file from and I figure most people have google accounts but not everyone wants to download vine and all that. If you wanna do one I guess you can, but I didn't want to suggest it.
@JonT Naw, I'm cool playing by the rules, especially since y'all want to download them. I was just overthinking the thing how seven seconds is just like six except with a free bonus second. Once again, I care... too much.
@JasonToon
@JonT I have that effect on all the GIFs.
@JasonToon k, so now all we have to do is watch to see what your badge becomes to decide if we should kiss up to meh or not...Thank you!
@JasonToon scared Barney. Baa!
@JasonToon Nice. It has a real "sketchy dude using the complimentary Internet at the public library vibe". Well done.
@medz it's the role I was born to play.
@juststephen HA! I went frame by frame and grabbed a screen cap of your battleship board.
@hallmike Oh, noes!
It's possible that I wasn't wearing actual pants...
@Headly I had to watch that twice because I heard "badgers" the first time.
Alien's don't believe in pants.
I wish I could do videos, but that skill is reserved for a younger generation.
@hallmike I have nothing with which to even make a video… oh well
@hallmike that skill is reserved for no one or type. Give it a try. Any real career you've ever had is 226 million times harder than a video........give or take a couple hundred million.
@Kidsandliz At least they can't see that we aren't wearing pants.
@denboy BAH - you kids and your can-do attitude. I've had a smartphone for years but just last week my wife showed me how the cameras can be reversed to take selfie's easier. I still haven't ever taken a selfie.
@hallmike I've heard strong selfie resistance is a sign of strong mental health. Guess I'll be snapping away a bunch of selfies soon.
@hallmike Humorously enough, that was the only usage tip I was given at the store when I bought my first iPhone. I guess a lot of people have issues finding selfie mode…
@Kidsandliz Not even a smart phone?
@readnj nope - clamshell that is 5 years old.
Oh my gosh...please don't make fun of me. I don't think I've used a webcam in more years than I can remember. I've never really cared how crappy my webcam is (or my headboard) until now.
@PurplePawprints Aww, pretty purple!
@Barney I was hoping you'd notice. <3 It is sorely in need of a touchup, though.
@PurplePawprints You did a great job there- bonus points for the Meh Kickstarter shirt!
@PurplePawprints Is that picture in the background some kind of Last Supper with Marylin Monroe?
@Teripie It's Battlestar Galactica.
@Teripie As @BillLehecka said, it was a promo picture for Battlestar Galactica. My husband is a huge fan (as am I) so I bought him a canvas print and had it framed last year. @dashcloud Thanks!
@PurplePawprints well done!!!
@unixrab Thanks!
@PurplePawprints I would love to know where you got this. It's awesome and I would frame a canvas print of it as well.
And then I googled. :)
@marklog I bought it from a Canadian eBay seller. I just went to get their store link for you, but it looks like they're no longer registered. Good luck on trying to find one. I looked for over a year trying to find one that was a good quality of the size I wanted. I had just about given up and decided to do a Rasterbation when I found it. It was still smaller than what I wanted, but I decided not to be too choosy. Between the print and having it framed I spent a small fortune, but we think it was worth it.
@PurplePawprints apparently posters are all over the place. i can just get one of those framed!
I know he's not the goat this month, but you can all blame @joelmw for this one...
@BillLehecka I have a feeling we have just found our winner.
@PurplePawprints I'm going to see if I can top this later... Maybe.
8 secs.. yawn.
@BillLehecka I'll take that blame. Nicely done.
Here's mine:
;-)
@unixrab
@unixrab Nice cleavage.
@Mavyn Thanks! they were expensive!
Pants status... unknown! 0_o
@Thumperchick I love putting a face to all the names! ;-)
@unixrab Me too! So uh, are you going to show us yours?
@Thumperchick He'll tell you he already put his up (the previous comment block above this), but that's a lie.
@Thumperchick Tangentially related to this, I was looking on the Woot video channel, and see you got interviewed- how did that come about?
@Thumperchick It's probably in the google ;-) Somewhere.
@dashcloud @thumperchick
I already put it up. that is a lie@unixrab I thought the cake is a lie...perhaps someday I will catch on to all the lies! :)
@mikibell ask the cake what the other cake would say is a lie
@Thumperchick Can I ask where you got pusheen?
@ehanda Pusheenicorn! and more.
@Thumperchick Are those the nail tattoos from the fukubukuros?
@editorkid Nah, those are Jamberries.
Here's my terribly mediocre incorrectly aspected video!
@Potatoboy Mitch Conner, is that you?
@Potatoboy If I must be the one, I will reluctantly point out that hand looks like he's coming in for more than a kiss. Oh my.
@Headly nope.
@joelmw then my work here is done.
So, hey, what's the deadline for these?
Come on, fhqwhgads.
@mikey dammmmmnnnnnn!
I'm sorry, I've made three videos and I can't bear to post them. I'm crying I'm laughing so hard after watching them... THEN I turn the sound on! Holy shit this is the funniest thing ever. And disgusting.
@marklog Do it for your disgusting countrymen!
@marklog mostly disgusting. 97% disgusting.
@marklog I am quoting myself again.
@marklog I had to make 3 and had my spouse pick what to use. Post it!! Unless your uh... dog is in it! :/
@Thumperchick I tried to get the dogs involved. They weren't interested.
Turn the sound up. WAY up.
It's 14 seconds. YOU cut it, I couldn't.
@marklog it's not the alcohol talking when i say i knew you were my favorite goat
@Alien88 that's funny, because it s alcohol that helped generate that video
@marklog the sounds... the... sounds.
@Thumperchick I know! ugh.
OH GOD! i hear the noises even AFTER the video stopped. goat of the month or not, curse you @marklog!
@marklog Someone make a 10 hour version of this already. This will be my virtual yule log come Christmas time.
@marklog dying...can't breathe. What part were the dogs gonna play in that?
Update: Badges have arrived! Remember they're temporary and will only be displayed until the end of the month (this could change for future contests and events depending on a bunch of factors so it's probably best to just imagine they'll always be temporary so I don't know why I even wrote all this).
You have until 6:30pm Eastern on Thursday, February 12th to earn your badge so show us some love, pick up a sweet badge and maybe even win another crappy prize!
@JonT Oh, awesome. I wanted to do one but didn't have the prop I wanted and figured it would end over the weekend. I'll see if I can rally something up.
Not to make more work for the awesome coding team, but maybe contest and event badges could be demoted to the end of users' badge lists after the contest/event is over. Or maybe the last three or six are demoted to the end, once there are that many to worry about. It would be cool to see it in a forum member's history. I know too many of them would get unwieldy, though.
@JonT You know, it'd be great on our Profile Pages to see our collection of badges that we've earned during our tenure on Meh.
@BillLehecka wouldn't it though? Wouldn't it be grand?
@BillLehecka We have Profile Pages? Damn it. I can't find ANYthing in this house.
@lisaviolet Click on the middle button up top on the right- the head. It takes you to your profile page.
@dashcloud My account? Checks it out That's it? That's my profile? sad face
@lisaviolet Blame @barney.
@JonT HOLY SHIT THERE ARE CRAPPY PRIZES? Like more than the badass heart badge? I was hoping that in homage to the video that it was a human heart. For clarity: I mean both the badge and the prize.
@Potatoboy What better way to encourage users to make asses of themselves than to pair 'crappy prices' with 'worthless badges'? Brilliant.
@marklog It worked on us...
My love to Meh and all of you.
Here is mine. No way to make a video so I made a flip book.
@Jont I don't know how to make this stop (look in message above) and how to make it so you have to click to make it run and then it stops when done. Here is the url http://www.benettonplay.com/toys/flipbookdeluxe/player.php?id=499128 and on that page is where I got the embed it code. Maybe you know what to do about this so it doesn't drive people nuts running forever?
Mine can be slow to load… so if it doesn't show up just wait a few seconds.
Last day to get your videos in and earn your Meh Lover badge for the rest of the month!
You have until 6:30pm Eastern
@JonT Thank you for this reminder. It's not something you had to do, but you did anyway because you care. I appreciate you.
@JonT Thanks for doing this contest. It's been a lot of fun to put faces with some of the usernames.
Hey @jont - where is my meh lover badge for doing this yesterday? Thank you : )
@Kidsandliz He gave us all squares instead of stars instead!
@Kidsandliz I'm guessing since it wasn't done as a YouTube video, it wasn't considered official. Most likely is a pain the the butt to add yours to the video montage I assume is being made.
@Kidsandliz Also, the work doesn't include you blowing a kiss.
Seeing all of you in this thread has made me question why I post here. You people are seriously creepy.
@phatmass Meanness. Way to go and hurt our feelings and shit. And right before V-Day, too. I'm heartbroken.
@PurplePawprints I do what I can to keep the morale in check. Without sadness, we would not know joy. Without struggle, we would not know triumph. Without hate, we would not know love.
@phatmass Well, as long as it's for the greater good, I guess I'll forgive you.
@PurplePawprints Are we flirting right now?
@phatmass I BATHED IN NEOPRENE FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!
@phatmass If you are, I sure hope @PurplePawprints' husband knows...
@phatmass Uhhh, no. Definitely not flirting. I'm happily married.